excessive RAM consumption - memory leak

[Igor Sysoev]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:47:29PM +0100, Todd HG wrote:

> eliott wrote:
> > You may try setting expires headers for your images, if they don't
> > change very often (or at all).
> 
> I have added, but I'm not altogether sure if this is optimum:
> 
> http {
>     expires       24h;
>     add_header    Cache-Control  private;
>     server_tokens off;

If the images are public (not per client) you should set

      expires   1M;

only to allow long caching in transit cache proxies.

"server_tokens off" simply turn off nginx version from "Server" header:
"Server: nginx" vs "Server: nginx/0.6.26".


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